Although the point of this article is about how Saudis need to deal with culture shock when they travel overseas, it should be about the culture shock that people in Dar al-Harb suffer when dealing with the new visitors.  From Arab News:

JEDDAH: A 26-year-old Japanese exchange student was assaulted in February inside a YMCA co-ed student-housing complex in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

A man donning a mask turned out the lights of the laundry room and grabbed the woman from behind. She screamed and broke free. Other students came to the rescue and, according to local news reports, detained 19-year-old Khaled Al-Harbi. The student, who was in Canada on a Saudi government scholarship, was diagnosed with psychological problems and has been seeking counseling.  [Don't worry, women in Nova Scotia, he might decide to go see a counselor some day.]

In another case in Bournemouth, UK, earlier this month, another Saudi student was sentenced to 24 weeks in jail. His identity has been registered for seven years on a local law-enforcement list of sexual harassers, according to the Daily Echo newspaper. In that case, the student, 23, was found guilty of public intoxication, stripping naked and chasing a 36-year-old woman through the streets. The woman punched the man and fled.  [I simply LOVE British women]

While cases of criminal bad behavior may reflect just a few bad apples among an estimated 60,000 Saudi men and women studying in 26 countries under government scholarships, some are wondering if the Ministry of Higher Education should do more to pre-empt bad behavior through more intense pre-departure counseling.

“The Kingdom is spending more than half a million riyals for each student it sends abroad. It would be worth it to provide necessary orientations, which would only cost SR1,000 for a week or two, presenting some specifics about a certain country, its culture, its people, its traditions, its women, and so on,” said Loay Alfi, a 26-year-old currently studying in the US on the King Abdullah scholarships program.

Alfi said bad behavior among Saudi students abroad is “embarrassing” to the country, and he called on education officials to do more to discourage such incidents before they occur.

Many Saudis who study abroad must cope with culture shock and homesickness, and they can be easily tempted into bad behavior when faced with more liberal social mores, especially pertaining to alcohol and the mingling of the sexes that are banned back home.

Most reported cases of Saudi students behaving badly abroad involve men who abuse alcohol or drugs and cross boundaries when relating to women. When it comes to women, they perceive the law (and the women) to be more lax in these countries than they are in Saudi Arabia.

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Bogari said Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal met his group and asked the men to take care of the Saudi women.  [Meaning they should stalk them and intimidate them to ensure that they do not "embarrass" their country or their family by going out to coffee with a kufir]  After Bogari arrived in Canada, he received an e-mail from Saudi Royal Embassy with a list of places to avoid and urging him not to get into trouble.

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“What is happening here is sometimes embarrassing,” he said.

And of course when these attacks on non-Muslim women occur, the Saudi students' one and only concern in this article is that it will "embarrass" their country.

I know that Muslims are never responsible for Muslim behavior, whether it is due to "mental illness" or "public intoxication," but ... REALLY?  They need to have TRAINING from their government not to put on masks, turn out the lights, and grab women from behind?  It's the Saudi government's fault for failing to teach them that it is not acceptable to take off all their clothes and chase women through the streets?  Is there no limit to the excuse-making?

If the students falsely assumed that this is normal behavior in the West, from where did they pick up that assumption?  What is a two-week course in training about a specific country's culture and traditions going to do compared with a lifetime's training in the madrasses about how non-Muslim women are whores and non-Muslim men are corrupt heathens who must be slaughtered?

Let's not even get into the behavior of the Saudi students who came to the U.S. to study how to fly, but not land, jet airliners in 2001.  They could have really caused some embarrassment to the Saudi government, if not for the quick-thinking efforts at damage-control by the U.S. government.